[Intel-wired-lan] [RFC PATCH] ice: allow creating VFs when !CONFIG_ICE_SWITCHDEV

Vincent Chen vincent.chen at sifive.com
Mon Apr 27 03:11:58 UTC 2026


Currently ice_eswitch_attach_vf() is called unconditionally in
ice_start_vfs() and ice_reset_all_vfs(), which causes VF creation
to fail when CONFIG_ICE_SWITCHDEV is not defined or switchdev mode
is not enabled at runtime.
Fix this by adding switchdev mode checks at the call sites before
calling ice_eswitch_attach_vf(), consistent with how
ice_eswitch_attach_sf() is already handled in ice_devlink_port_new().
Also remove the redundant check inside ice_eswitch_attach_vf() itself.
This is similar to commit aacca7a83b97 ("ice: allow creating VFs for
!CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV") which fixed the same issue for the previous
ice_eswitch_configure() API.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen at sifive.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_eswitch.c |  3 ---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c   | 14 ++++++++------
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_lib.c  |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_eswitch.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_eswitch.c
index 2e4f0969035f..c709decb26d5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_eswitch.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_eswitch.c
@@ -512,9 +512,6 @@ int ice_eswitch_attach_vf(struct ice_pf *pf, struct ice_vf *vf)
 	struct ice_repr *repr;
 	int err;
 
-	if (!ice_is_eswitch_mode_switchdev(pf))
-		return 0;
-
 	repr = ice_repr_create_vf(vf);
 	if (IS_ERR(repr))
 		return PTR_ERR(repr);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c
index 843e82fd3bf9..6a0b724e46f9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c
@@ -484,12 +484,14 @@ static int ice_start_vfs(struct ice_pf *pf)
 			goto teardown;
 		}
 
-		retval = ice_eswitch_attach_vf(pf, vf);
-		if (retval) {
-			dev_err(ice_pf_to_dev(pf), "Failed to attach VF %d to eswitch, error %d",
-				vf->vf_id, retval);
-			ice_vf_vsi_release(vf);
-			goto teardown;
+		if (ice_is_eswitch_mode_switchdev(pf)) {
+			retval = ice_eswitch_attach_vf(pf, vf);
+			if (retval) {
+				dev_err(ice_pf_to_dev(pf), "Failed to attach VF %d to eswitch, error %d",
+					vf->vf_id, retval);
+				ice_vf_vsi_release(vf);
+				goto teardown;
+			}
 		}
 
 		set_bit(ICE_VF_STATE_INIT, vf->vf_states);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_lib.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_lib.c
index de9e81ccee66..71595410174c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_lib.c
@@ -807,7 +807,8 @@ void ice_reset_all_vfs(struct ice_pf *pf)
 		ice_vf_rebuild_vsi(vf);
 		ice_vf_post_vsi_rebuild(vf);
 
-		ice_eswitch_attach_vf(pf, vf);
+		if (ice_is_eswitch_mode_switchdev(pf))
+			ice_eswitch_attach_vf(pf, vf);
 
 		mutex_unlock(&vf->cfg_lock);
 	}
-- 
2.34.1



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